[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 149 (Monday, August 23, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E914-E915]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING THE LIFE AND SERVICE OF LT. COLONEL GERALD W. BOSTON, USMC 
                                  RET.

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                         HON. DIANA HARSHBARGER

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, August 23, 2021

  Mrs. HARSHBARGER. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize Lt. Colonel 
Gerald W. Boston Retired of Baneberry, Tennessee. Jerry was born in 
Oklahoma of Cherokee Heritage. The family moved to Tennessee where he 
spent his younger years growing up in the Mill Springs community of 
Jefferson County, Tennessee and he celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday 
on August 23, 2021. He attended Jefferson High School and then Carson 
Newman College. He graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville 
and was commissioned as an officer in the United States Marine Corp in 
1959.
  His career in the Marine Corps led him to the war in Vietnam where he 
was commander of ground reaction forces involved in heavy fighting at 
the DMZ and the TET combat mission. He also served in Rota, Spain and 
later attended and graduated the ``Command and Staff'' College in 
Quantico, Virginia. Due to his experience and his training, he was sent 
back to Vietnam to serve as an Advisor to the Vietnamese Marines who 
were engaged in severe combat with the North Vietnamese Army. Later he 
was assigned to Hawaii and was Battalion Commander of the 2nd BN, 4th 
Marines. In 1982, he retired after serving his country for twenty-three 
years in the United States Marines Corp.
  After his career in the United States Marine Corps, Colonel Boston 
transitioned to civilian

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life and worked in California's Silicon Valley's high-tech industry 
working for ATARI and then Sun Microsystems, where be would go on to 
build high tech campuses across the United States. Upon retirement, he 
came home to Jefferson County, Tennessee where he volunteered and 
contributed greatly to the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce and 
Baneberry City government.
  Jerry's legacy of love includes his marriage to his wonderful wife, 
Marilynn, whom he has been married to since Valentine's Day in 1959, 
and their two children, Andy and Karen, who have given him and Marilynn 
four grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
  Madam Speaker, Lt. Colonel Jerry Boston has served our country 
faithfully, along with his community and family and I proudly honor 
him.

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